Upgrade from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 3 - Search for answers

[Leila Lappin]

--- Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/15/05, Leila Lappin <damovand at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > The mystery deepens,
> > 
> > It turns out I have PS/2 connection for my
> keyboard
> > and mouse.  If the problem is incompatibility
> between
> > kernel options and the device type then it must
> not in
> > the physical device but in the setup parameters. 
> Any
> > ideas? Have I misunderstood something?
> > 
> 
> Leila,
>    Please clearify. Does this mean that you have a
> keyboard that has a
> USB connector at the end of the cable, and you have
> been plugging it
> in up until now to a USB port, but the keyboard is
> also supplied with
> a little USB to PS/2 converter to allow you to plug
> it into the PS/2
> keyboard port, and that after changing to that
> configuration you are
> still seeing the same problem?
> 
>    If so then the next question just exactly how far
> are you getting
> during the install boot. I just grabbed an FC3
> install disk. I put it
> in an older machine and start booing. The
> installation stuff comes up
> and I can choose 5 pages of info using F1-F5. Do you
> get that far? If
> not let us know.
> 
>    If you get that far then you look at F2 for
> options. There aren't
> many listed, but the ones that are look reasonable.
> Try booting with
> 
> linux text noprobe
> 
> and see what results you have. this should disable
> ALL hardware
> probing and jsut try to boot the kernel. If your
> basic hardware -
> keyboard and VGA - are simple and compliant, then it
> should boot. (I
> hope!)
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
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Mark,

I’ll do as best as I can to answer your questions
regarding the connection.  If your find my answer is
incomplete please let me know and then I’ll get
someone with more hardware background to help me
figure out the complete answer.  

Both my keyboard and mouse are Microsoft.  They are
connected, straight from the device to the CP, with a
PS/2 connector.  I verified what a PS/2 connector
looks like by checking some picture on the Internet
(I’m not trying to be funny or pathetic just precise).
 The connector looks round has six pins and three
groves around the perimeter.  

>    If you get that far then you look at F2 for
> options. There aren't
> many listed, but the ones that are look reasonable.
> Try booting with
> 
> linux text noprobe
> 

I do get this far.  So I guess you are saying where it
say "boot" ( on the first screen under the line with
function key options) I should type "linux text
noprobe".  I'll try that next.

Thanks


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